Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris. "You join our party or we will get your two children on May Day!" This threat, whispered by Communists over and over to simple Thomas Testa, Parisian factory worker, so preyed on his mind that last week, mad with fear he rushed into the Metro (subway), dashed through the ticket puncher's wicket, flung himself off the platform before an oncoming train. The cars only took off one of his legs...
...rgiebel forbade all outdoor demonstrations on Der Tag. All the more determined, Communist bands assembled early in various parts of the city. Leather-helmeted police swinging rubber clubs quickly cleared the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden, but the Communists, acting according to a pre-arranged plan, concentrated in two suburban workers' districts, Wedding...
Taking possession of these two districts, the Communists tore down lamp posts, uprooted trees, built street barricades of overturned carts, paving blocks, sewer pipe. Snipers were posted in housetops and at upper windows...
Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
Policeman and officer searched diligently. Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes. Detectives from Scotland Yard joined the search, but no trace of the scarlet-coated, white-belted sentry could be found...